Songs of Trust and Treachery
As sung by Lotte Obratsov

Bits and Tatters


Bits and Tatters

Embrace it
Embrace it wholly
Upset and loosen the pieces.
Let it crumble
Let it crumble
Let it crumble into traces

Chorus:
Let it
Let it carry you
Let it carry you away

Unravel it
It's complications
Now it's bits and tatters
Accept, accept the situation
That is all that matters.

Songs of Trust and Treachery
As sung by Lotte Obratsov

Circus Waltz


The birds will correct us
Their cries will reflect us
The circus is coming today.

The apes will delight us
They never will bite us
The circus is coming. Hooray!

The tigers will tease us
Their antics will please us
The circus is coming today.

The devil will dream us
His friends will redeem us
The circus is coming. Hooray!

The clown will amaze us
We won't let it phase us
The circus is leaving they say.

The beasts will connect us
They'll never reject us
The circus has gone on its way.

After the music from trumpet and fiddle
And after rhyming of end and of middle

After the stories and pictures and songs
After the pranks, provocations and wrongs

And after the travellers have gone, as they must
All that is left is the sky and the dust.
(begin again and continue till fade)

Cast of the opera "Century"

Songs of Trust and Treachery

As sung by Lotte Obratsov

Quality of Light


That day, the day that I came home,
The day before I went away,
There was a quality of light
That showed the world in its array

The things that lay around the room,
The voices from the street below,
There was a quality of light
That made them possible to know

The walls, the floor, the fools, the flowers,
The narrow stairs, the dusty panes,
There was a quality of light
That held them gently as they changed

Repeat first verse